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Christopher William Hill

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM HILL  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    TROIKA  


Christopher William Hill is currently under commission to Hampstead Theatre (Footnotes) and Plymouth Theatre Royal (Credible Threats). Theatre credits include: Exotic Tastes (Arcola Theatre); Heartbreak Beautiful (National Theatre Connections, 2009); Inglorious Technicolour (Stephen Joseph Theatre, 2006); Multiplex (National Theatre Connections, 2003); Song of the Western Men (Minerva Theatre Chichester, 2002); Blood Red, Saffron Yellow (Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2001) and LAM (Northcott Theatre Exeter, 1999). Christopher has written several plays for BBC Radio 4; his credits include: Marmalade for Comrade Philby (starring Bill Nighy); Says it on the Tin (6 part series, 2009); Killing Maestros (Original Play, starring Bill Nighy 2003) which won the BAFTA for Best Radio Play.

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 Blood Red, Saffron Yellow         Dark Woods Beyond         Death to Mr Moody         Exotic Tastes         Heatbreak Beautiful         Icons         Inglorious Technicolour         Ittllkyllyooiffyoodo         Jonah Lie, The         Lam         Mister Holgado         Multiplex         Murder of Charlotte Dymond, The         Osbert the Avenger         Patisserie         Song of Solomon         Song Of The Western Men

Blood Red, Saffron Yellow

Synopsis:
Cornwall. April, 1942. Pearce's Bakery, Trevellan. Rationing is in force, but there are still hot cross buns, saffron cakes and Easter biscuits to be made. Kerenza Pearce mixes dough and Emily soaks the fruit. Little Lottie, an evacuee from Exeter, helps Mrs Pearce add mace and saffron. . .just a few grains - precious as gold! Old Mr Pearce stares down contemptuously from his frame upon the wall, while Kerenza's husband pat, hiding in the attic, makes not a sound. This atmospheric and turbulent rural war-time tells of hope and abandonment, love, lust and despair, blood and saffron cake.

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Dark Woods Beyond

Synopsis:
Drawing on tales of lycanthropy, the mythical transformation of humans into wolves, Dark Woods Beyond is a twisted tale of deep rooted beliefs and the lengths to which people will go to preserve their superstitions.

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1st Produced:
Plymouth: Barbican Theatre    28 Oct 2004

Organisations:
Bedlam Theatre Company

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Genre:
mythical tale

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Death to Mr Moody

Christopher William Hill
In the blackly comic Death to Mr Moody, the reluctant choir of St Hilda's Community School go to farcical lengths to plot the untimely death of their despised choirmaster.

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large teenage cast

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Exotic Tastes

Synopsis:
Sondrine's customers are deserting her restaurant in the seedy backstreets of Paris, until Didier decides to vary the menu with choice cuts from the local zoo - and so the 'Zookeeper's Supper Club' is formed. Ragout of penguin is one thing, but is Otto the Chimp an appetizer too far?

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part of 'a Night Less Ordinary

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arcola Academy

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Play/Drama

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Heatbreak Beautiful

Christopher William Hill
Dan wants his brother AJ to be an elite athlete, but AJs girlfriend Amber is already planning their life together filled with benefits, babies and KFC. Trouble is AJ only has eyes for Ellie. Meanwhile Oscar the geek is trying not to get battered by Headwound while inventing an army of killer bird-bees to vanquish his rivals. Oh, and Dazzas been having it off with Fat Kylie behind Fit Kylies back... A fast-paced comedy about life, love and P.E.

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performed by Churchill Theatre, Bromley

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Organisations:
New Connections

1st Published:
in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National Theatre   978-0571251353

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Icons

Synopsis:
After eight years of intensive planning, the Museum of Modern Warfare prepares to open its doors to the paying public. The only trouble is, curator of exhibits Aaron Sachs is finding it almost impossible to acquire enough artefacts to fill the museum. But when he's offered the chance to buy a high profile 'exhibit' from another museum collection, it seems to provide Aaron with the lifeline he so desperately needs. However, he soon discovers that it threatens to create far more problems than it solves.

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Inglorious Technicolour

Christopher William Hill
In a failing comprehensive school in Stockton-On-Tees, teacher Matt Dolby is struggling to inspire his art class. But then he spots 16-year-old Ryan Nesbitt's grafitti in the school toilets and, before either of them know quite what has happened, the skateboarding schoolboy is being hailed as the enfant terrible of the London art-scene. Inglorious Technicolour is a playful satire on contemporary art and OFSTED.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ittllkyllyooiffyoodo

Synopsis:
Have you heard about the boy who was allergic to vegetables? Has anyone told you what really happens if you swallow bubblegum? Or what if you eat curry and ice cream. . .together!? Join us and see what happens when one brave boy dares to!

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Dundee Rep Creative Learning Youth Theatre

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Genre:
short play

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Jonah Lie, The

Christopher William Hill
The Jonah Lie is an off-beat romantic comedy, set in a small whaling community at the turn of the century. Life in the village changes forever when sailor James True claims to have been swallowed and spat out by a whale of biblical proportions.

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Genre:
romantic comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large teenage cast

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Lam

Synopsis:
January 1941. Black market fever sweeps through the small Cornish village of St Melor. F J Mutton is dead and his three sons struggle to earn an honest living in the family butcher. Hamilton dreams of outsmarting the village policeman. Plum dreams of a reclining nude. Lam dreams innocent dreams of becoming a cowboy. But none of their dreams are compatible. . .

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mister Holgado

Christopher William Hill
When little Conrad Van der Bosch claims he has an invisible tiger called Sigmund hiding on his wardrobe, his child-psychologist father sees the lie as a deliberate act of juvenile defiance. Doctor Van der Bosch is concerned that the boy is mentally maladjusted and in an attempt to terrify Conrad into admitting that there never was an invisible tiger, creates the terrifying figure of Mister Holgado, a child-eating monster who is apparently hiding inside Conrads wardrobe, waiting to consume the little boy. This triggers a battle for supremacy, as Conrad and his father struggle to manipulate the myth of Holgado. In desperation, as the Doctor fails to curtail his sons imagination, he realises he has no choice but to become the child-eating Holgado.

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Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1849434607

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Genre:
TYA black comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Multiplex

Synopsis:
'There's three types of ushers, right. There's Plankton...that's like the lowest of the low. Don't know shit. Then there's Dudes...they're, you know, cool. But they don't know movies. And top of the food chain, there's the Buffs...they know everything about every movie ever made, and to them, right, cinema - it's not just entertainment, it's life' . Multiplex is a fantasy of what lies in the sinister parallel world beneath the dimly lit auditoria and candy-coloured foyers of a multiplex cinema.

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NT Connections

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Contained in: "Shell Connections 2003" published by Faber and Faber 2003   -

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Murder of Charlotte Dymond, The

Synopsis:
Bodmin, 1844 and Charlotte Dymond is murdered in cold blood. Someone must hang for it - but who? Pascoe and Hill's haunting opera explores a tale of murder, jealousy and betrayal that shattered a once peaceful Cornish community. Matthew Weeks was tried for the murder and 20,000 Cornishmen travelled to Bodmin jail to see him hang. But when researching the murder in 1978, Pat Munn, a Cornish academic and historian, sifted through the evidence and made some alarming discoveries. Influenced by her book and the BBC documentary which followed, Pascoe and Hill have created a powerful opera, which questions Weeks' guilt, whilst also pointing the finger of blame elsewhere. A miscarriage of justice? The Murder of Charlotte Dymond promises to fuel the debate which continues to divide opinion after 150 years.

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Music Russell Pascoe. Lyrics Christopher William Hill.

1st Produced:
Truro: hall For Cornwall    05 Dec 1999

Organisations:
The Cornish Sinfonia

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Genre:
musical opera

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 singers

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Osbert the Avenger

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TYA

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Patisserie

Synopsis:
Life in the patisserie just got complicated. Suki is struggling to juggle her roles as pastry chef and ballroom dancing instructor. But when Alex, her deaf protégé, is left without a partner for the area championships, a desperate Suki is forced to pair him with closet ballroom dancer, Dean. This delicious comedy celebrates diverse and challenging visual imagery though the partnership of deaf and hearing performance skills.

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Genre:
comedy

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Song of Solomon

Synopsis:
A young ferryman dreams of escape as the First World War encroaches on a small Cornish community.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Song Of The Western Men

Synopsis:
A black comedy about a small community in a changing world. St Martin's, Isles of Scilly 1939, Mr Clemmow, the island post master is dead. Reluctantly, his son-in-law Vic Oliver prepares to take on the mantle of responsibility for the island's communication with the outside world. The installation of a new telegraph machine brings the world closer to St Martin's than ever before. As Britain teeters on the brink of war, a Post Office official arrives from the mainland and Vic is forced to take drastic action in order to preserve the precarious integrity of life on St Martin's.

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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